Intercepted Emails, Russia/Ukraine Loggerhead is Poison, Antidote Needed Soon, For US and them

        When I think about, it is pretty amazing. There is probably over 7 billion people on this planet. At least 5 billion of them go online. 

        14 years ago I tried to get political asylum turning the tables on who or what was trying to make it impossible for me to make a living. One of the things responsible was a speech from the President of the United States calling for a boycott of French products, which led within hours (I didn't discover it for 2 weeks because of a 2 week trial period lag) or at least a day, my program getting delisted from AOL where almost all of my orders came from.

        I saw an opportunity in this to speak out against an illegal war, not to get even, but to make the best of a horrific sudden turn of events. I may have had over $50,000 on credit cards alone, but I might be remembering it as somewhat larger than it really was. If I had to guess on the low end, it would have been at least $35,000, to the best of my recollection. 

        Still, the reality of the situation wasn't that important so long as I kept moving forward, which I did, to even greater problems. Since to me, and legally speaking when your own government singled out your ethnicity for discrimination (French, not white, but that would bring up a lot of other problems if that was the case) and that led to a company delisting your program which they had been heartily endorsing for years, at one point above all others for all of their tens of millions of customers to download to read their email attachments, right after that call for a boycott.

        It seemed the thing to do at the time, even before I got hit by a car and wasn't really up to how complicated that would have been to actually try to do and not get silenced one way or the other. I was going to use that to talk about everything my country pretty much wanted to be sure no one ever wanted discussed publicly: Torture, Rendition, going completely against International Law (which I studied at an under-graduate level), and other FUN things no one else wanted discussed or willing to come forward about.

        After a year of going to college, I felt up to it and did so. On top of that I discussed other things, in case those things weren't enough, like some of the worst things the United States Government had been caught doing, at least that I was aware of, going back up to 30 years. 

        Luckily it was a Western country close enough to the one I had intended, Sweden instead of France. Sweden would hopefully pass along what I wrote to the CIA because of course it was supposed to be confidential and against the law for the CIA to get ahold of what I told the Swedish Government. But to go around these laws would present them with a problem. I am just kidding, they only would have had to ask. 

        We saw from the Julian Assange case, really there is nothing Sweden would not do if or when the US simply asked. Two Swedish permanent residents were given over to the US to be tortured simply because the United States asked. This was public knowledge.

        What I was doing was well telegraphed. The first time I tried was at the French Embassy in Estonia, so they knew, or at least should have known, what I was going to do when my student Visa ran out. When I simply had no choice, no way out, and no food (I was malnourished for weeks), I did again what I tried to do 10 months earlier.

        Now one can speculate why, knowing or at least having a pretty good amount of clues, such as using the school computers to print out here to there routes to get to Embassies for Venezuela, Switzerland, (I could't go  the Swedish Embassy like in Estonia because I was already in Sweden), and other countries, why they allowed it to go forward anyway. They could have asked, hey why are you trying to do this?

        Some Embassies I did go to, and at one some guy was in front of the Venezuela embassy whose sole purpose was seemingly to keep me from going in saying they were closed, even though I kept calling to the people inside who said they were open. I said in 2007, that was probably for the best especially since I did not have to the Embassy thing to get asylum, and I did not get stuck in one, in the worst case scenario as happen to some people. I didn't even get stuck in an airport. I got to go home within at tops, a few hours.

        Now I could get all worked up over how this is a similar situation now, and I have a little since it is leading to a public starving to death, or making me homeless and then have me killed since after all I have gone through, the idea of living on the streets and sleeping public does not seem to be a rather particularly attractive option for me, and most likely to prove fatal rather quickly. This is somewhat predictable in my case because of things that happened before and would most likely happen again if I were to be put in that situation which is become increasingly unavoidable.

        Again, I am being made unable to work. Most people who want to hire me stop just before hiring me, and in some cases just after I did get hired. Either way I don't get hours. UPS won't even pay me for the online training before having me wait over 3 weeks, every day waiting to be called to work insisting I was still an employee, and that I would get called up to work any day now.

        As I said I had been through it before in 2003. But back then I had indications of who or what was responsible, like the speech Bush gave suggesting a boycott of French products and my items page in the download store was taken over by a photo of an asinine grinning French Mime. Subtle it was not. 

        As far as the hackers who kept going after any computer which I logged into to check my email, that was looked into by me until it was no longer a problem. I was lead to believe they were Russian or Ukrainian so I went to Russia too.

        I never made it to Ukraine but would have liked have gone before Obama and Victoria Nuland may have helped start a civil war there. These days most would rather avoid going there until that's over.  Maybe that was inevitable for Ukraine to have those problems eventually, and maybe not. 

        In 2007, it appeared to me, and my body especially, that my coffee was tampered with because a man tried to walk off with it when it was still half full. Four hours later I was violently ill, and days later I still had nerve damage and could not hold a pen in my right hand let alone write with it.

        Not to sound prejudiced against Russians or Ukrainians but, it seemed he fit the bill because the strong accent I remembered but could not place it to either country, because the languages were so similar. My Russian instructor at University was Ukrainian. The accent sounds the same. The "languages" are virtually the same but with some differences in words and other minor regional variations. Classifying them as different languages was at least partially a political decision.

        At some point up until today, I assumed I would eventually be allowed to get a job and this would all go away. But then again I myself said I would post more everyday, and that was not helpful for bringing this standoff to an end, because it was me who set a deadline ahead of time. 

        It would be better for whatever might be behind this, or my government which is definitely allowing it to go on, to wait until I am done doing this writing and simply then either hit me with some probably bad demand or arrest me for something I already said or might say since I said I would keep talking until it ends or until January 1st. 

        If it were to be some kind of test, how poor and close to being killed could I get yet still not talk about what I know would get me killed or locked up, and force me into that situation intentionally and not let it let up until I do, I am good at tests but prefer to study for them first. Then I do well on them. 

        This time I can't get a clue about who or what brought about this situation or why now, but I was aware it could occur and that if it did, I was hopeful I would learn something from it. All I learned is that Kauai is a rather nice place and that Oahu may lose up to 30% of its tourists because of restrictions on stays for tourists in private residences and short term rentals such as AirB&B. I have not heard that such problems in booking would affect this island but I did hear talk of the same self-destructive policies being considered for Maui before I left.

        Pretty much, I have no clue why this is happening but it has been fun, or at least as fun as it could be given the dire circumstances. 

        But about those 7 billion people I mentioned. Not a SINGLE one had EVER mentioned I did that, not that I wanted it talked about if possible because it was more of a private message from me to my government to please stop doing that kind of thing, and to me especially (but not the torture stuff, at least thus far). 

        They didn't stop completely, but they did slow it down a bit after that and I felt better that I stopped doing what I was doing when I did. Instead I went back to Hawaii, got an interesting job and with only sporadical flare-ups like the worst Starbucks experience you could imagine, life was good. Stopping was good. Being left alone was good.

        But I don't think that only just the Men In Black were aware of what I did. The wildcard was the emails. I had known my emails could be intercepted from my experiences at University in Estonia. People I emailed who I said not much but "How you doing. Are you still available when you said to meet," and other normal conversations. 

        And then things got weird. I didn't know who or what was interfering or what messages they got, but I quickly learned, it was not a good idea, even before the political asylum pending was known to anyone but me, to try to email people because then they stopped talking to me. Kind of like now, when places I get hired at suddenly stop wanting to put me on the schedule, and without me even needing to send them an email first. It just sort of happens on its own.

        The last time of course, I had clues and pursued them even across halfway the globe and into Russia, and very limited funds. This time, maybe I am just getting old but no longer like playing such sort of game. Plus my passport expired.

        So emails, and if they were intercepted or tampered with, were interesting to me long before they became controversial when private emails became public via Wikileaks or other organizations because I saw it potentially happening to me. And I knew they could be intercepted.

        Because I knew how emails worked, I knew that they were largely unencrypted at the time (this was 2004-2005) which meant meant that any number of people who knew your email address could intercept and read your emails too. And even Hillary Clinton's email server used for much of her State Department emailing supposedly for the first few weeks of service until encryption was set up would have been too. Almost anyone could have intercepted and read those. That is how unencrypted emails work, bouncing all over the Internet from computer to computer showing its contents to everyone of them until it finds the right one to finally give it to.

        Because the server I used was tappable, I never knew what was intercepted and what was not. Lets just say I became skeptical of what I was seeing and had no idea if other people were seeing or getting what I was sending. Other than maybe they did my messages, but also got a shitload of other stuff not from me which was made to look like it came from me. Both hackers and intelligence services are able to do that and get away with it for different reasons.

        When it came time to give the second paper I wrote to the Immigration Board of Sweden, the Radioactive Cereal Paper Part 2, I did something perhaps not expected. I emailed it a bunch of places rather than just posting it to POLSCI.COM like I did the first time with the original one. I had no expectations any of those emails would get through because my internet connection might not have had a clear a path to the outside world as most peoples' given what I had written about in Part 1. I sent it to at least 2 US Senator's office (where there they could have been deleted ahead of getting to those offices or after, but also US and foreign newspapers). It wasn't for years that I had any indications that even one of those emails got through but my best guess is that at least some of them did.

        These posts and "Open Letters" I have posted I also tried to send many different people around the world including the people they were addressed to (except Trump, the White House does't give an email address anymore). I had no illusion that any of these emails would get through. And I had no belief that they might get through, nor have I had indication that did, though I did get an auto-response to one.

        Simply put, I would not be bothered one way or the other, if not that one of those ways is this rather public execution I have in store if I am continued to be preventing from working for unknown reasons, and my government does not care to ease up or do anything differently other than stand by and let it happen, in the best case scenario that it actually is a third party.

        My job got taken away without cause or real explanation at the tail end of the Obama administration. Lots of things starting getting weird across the government in Washington after June 2016, but I never thought being forced out of that job, from pressure from higher up, was to be a permanent thing. 


        I had a few more things to say if that was to be the case and for the most part I have already said them this week. I did the "Open Letters" to Tulsi Gabbard and to Donald Trump. I emailed them as best I could to their respective campaigns and I still will probably write the third one to the campaign of Michael Bloomberg because I said I would. It is just as unlikely to be read, pretty much by anyone, but I will still try to do well with it anyway.

        Just before Snowden did his thing, I had sent another email which I had assumed would or could be intercepted which mentioned my political asylum and in that or recently online I had stated the only people I had assumed were reading anything I wrote anyway were the gatekeepers, those whose jobs it might had been to monitor my communications (maybe now all US citizens are in the same boat, but for most they just go to the backups because they back everything you say and do up in case they don't catch it in real time) because they were the only people that mattered.

        In the USSR if you were a dissident your main audience was the censors. If they let some of what you said get through to reach the people, you did your job better than those who wrote propaganda garbage (what most MSM is today) and better too than those who wrote things so important and relevant that no one would ever see or read them. You had to know or focus on that select few who would hopefully be swayed by it to let it get through.

        But unfortunately though those emails were pulled and stopped, the forwarding let some get out. I was given a written warning but I owned it because I did it, however less than completely intentional. What I was eventually fired for had nothing to do with anything at all which I did, and quite the opposite.

        So in this case I continued to send the "Open Letters" out simply to see if anyone would respond, not knowing anyone would or could see them anyway. If my appeal for help go unnoticed and this is to be unending until I expire without being able to do anything effective about it, like how I was boxed in before I was fired, I can say well done. You got me. 

        Whoever or whatever, its withstanding anything I can throw at it, at least until the first of January comes. And I will decide where to go after that. I definitely would never kill myself and may not keep talking about things the government might not like until the rug is pulled out. Like I said, I never thought that far ahead. I

        I said most of what I wanted, and have no idea if anyone saw any of what I wrote this week anymore than 14 years ago. The reason why my government is letting this set of circumstances continue is as mysterious to me as why they let the political asylum thing go on. As I said, online is a controlled environment and things can be faked. Most people are unaware of such things and just believe what they see has not been messed with. Things can be redirected, intercepted, changed around and then sent on there way with less ability to know about it as in the past. 

        I have written in the past about the "compartmentalization" problems in the way the CIA is structured. "The left hand now knowing what the right is doing." What they see is sandboxed which mean they think they know what is going on but corrupt people higher up can use that to their advantage whenever and however they wish. It makes for good and thrilling spy movies. It does not make for a good way to run a country.

        I said before on Twitter, the people who really run this country were upset that the President of Ukraine might meet the President of Russia without them present or being told what was said. Not even the President of the United States is allowed that. Both have their minders, and if the minders don't like what they say, they leak it to whoever can hold it over them to either toe the line or be thrown out if they can't or won't stop. Trump could not stand up to that pressure. Bloomberg migher or might not, but probably wouldn't ever test the waters to see. Either way we'll probably never find out because unlike Gabbard or Trump, it isn't that clear that is his goal in why he is running. Like people thought of Trump, he may have no desire to win.

        I will still keep emailing what I have previous written towards the Trump or Gabbard campaigns in case any of those emails might get through. If they don't get through, or do and no one reads them or cares, at least I wrote them well. 

        A letter to Bloomberg campaign I will at least most likely still write, and might not write anymore after that. Then it will be a new year and hopefully things for me will let up. If Trump were to be shown what I wrote, it might be helpful. I wrote even better things in the "Open Letter" to Gabbard about Russia and the Ukraine. Being publicly starved out I cannot do anything about, but can at least end the "publicly" part of that as best I can in early 2020. Who knows, I may even be allowed to work at a job after I get hired to it before being taken off the schedule. Fourth times a charm.

Open Letter to US Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Iowa, Russia, Ukraine, Chalmers Johnson, Don Hendley

Open Letter to US Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii

        As with my previous "Open Letter" to US President Donald Trump, I will begin this as a request for aiding in your endeavor. Also as with my previous letter, that is just my opening lesser reason for writing this letter. My greater purpose is to offer what little perspective I may have beforehand since it is unlikely that I would be hired, though I will cover why I might hope that, however unlikely, aiding your run would be something I would greatly wish to do.

       At the end I offer up advice on how to approach the Iowa Caucuses.

       I have never volunteered to help a campaign before this week despite being active in politics and the study of Political Science and elections at University since 1987.  We are entering a different era in politics, a more divided era of less reasoned debate and more emotional responses, and a more critical time for our democracy. 

       I did spend a semester as an Intern for a U.S. Senator which for me was an introduction to the reality of how things really in work in politics, which was a good perspective to gain, because what is taught in University sometimes does not address the everyday reality of how politics works in practice compared to in theory.

        As with my previous letter to President Trump, which I am including below, I will begin by stating that I cannot fully understand why you chose to make your run for the White House anymore than I can say I understand why he did.

         But I do hope with your run, as with his, that it was caused and is continuing for the reasons you and your staff have put out for the country to see, that you understand the challenges which are confronting our country, and that you think you are in a position to better address these challenges and crisis events ongoing, and those potentially lying ahead, than our current leadership is now struggling to do.

        Even though it is unlikely this letter will be read and considered, I would not have bothered to write it to you, or to your office staff, if I did not believe your stated goals were the most important to be addressed at this time.

        You have taken bold, yet commonsense positions, which are unfortunately for the United States and the World, being shunned by the political establishment, most media pundits, and the greater media at large. 

        You have not only continued your candidacy despite these strong headwinds, but you have even said that you will forfeit running for re-election for your safe House seat representing my Congressional District to give your Presidential run your highest possible attention, while still representing your constituents.

        I have studied every Presidential Election in University and out, since the 1988 election. Evidence has shown it to be difficult to run for two offices at the same time. Though since as I said, yours is a "safe" seat, I have no doubt that you could have done both, running to keep your US House seat at the same time as continuing your run for the Presidency, simultaneously better than most others could do, and have kept your current job as a fallback option.

        And yet you have chosen willingly to give that up to better focus on your Democratic Primary run because you have stated that you believe that is it more important. I agree with that assessment regardless of how well you do in the primaries. Your being there and what you are saying is important, needs to be heard, and needs to be taken more seriously than the media currently cares to do. 

        Your struggle with getting your messages out, which often run contrary to what the Democratic Party as a whole wishes to say or have heard, has been an uphill climb for your campaign to say the least. But without great obstacles to be overcome, great leaders are not created. Unfortunately we are in a time which requires whoever leads the United States to be someone who can surmount unlikely and often unfair circumstances. 

        I have watched your campaign since its beginning. Not every stand you have taken has been a vote-getter and that is refreshing. Now with the challenges this country faces, we need leadership that does not always look to opinion polls or focus groups before determining what stands they will take on controversial issues which are further dividing our great country.

        We need leaders who the public believes make their decisions based on them actually believing in the things which they are saying, and we need to know what those beliefs are before voting for them. We do not need leaders who have no beliefs of their own, who will change their tune whenever the political winds start to blow in from a different direction. 

        Obviously we need leadership that will also listen to the public they are supposed to represent, and to change their course when it is proven wrong, and not be so obstinate that they lack the ability to change when change is required, when their initial approaches prove to possibly be in error. We need leaders who aren't obsessed with saving face, but will own up to their mistakes quickly and check their egos at the door.

        Your boldest stands, most of which I agree with, have not won you the admiration of the Democratic Party establishment. And your calling out of previous errors and mistakes of the Party, for their refusing to look deeply at what went wrong in the past, and truly move on and learn from them, as your experience has shown, they did not get the message. Unfortunately many candidates are repeating the same mistakes, the same themes, the same messages, and are showing the same tone-deafness that they showed in 2016.

        Change needs to be more than just a political catch-phrase or slogan. Change is what we need now more than ever, and of the current crop of Presidential Candidates, I believe your candidacy represents best showcasing a new departure for the Democratic Party to put aside the obsession with winning and any cost, no matter the rightward drift. It needs to get back to its core values, representing the voiceless, the poor, the homeless, the middle class, and the people struggling to make ends meet.

        The Democratic Party used to be more than just the other half of the War Party. It used to stand for diplomacy, was hesitant to support military action unless only when the case for its use was proven and the objective justified. Only your candidacy has done more than just provide hollow lip-service to "supporting our troops". 

       You have given voice to the silenced voice of the former less-warlike rank and file of the State Department, who used to see war, not as a choice, but only as the last case option due to its devastating consequences, which our arm-chair warrior pundits and many politicians see it instead as almost like a video game.

        You know that that mistaken perception of war is wrong from your experiences in Iraq and that it is dangerous for those to be the prevailing opinions of political establishment you deal with in Washington.

        While Senator Sanders and others have done a better job than major candidates in the past to mobilize the Democratic Party to finally at least verbally address our ever increasing in numbers lower-middle class citizens, falling from the long shrinking regular middle class, many have ceased to believe that the Democrats still remember them when year after year, those words were failed to be translated into meaningful programs to help them, as they continued to fall into worsening economic despair in ever increasing numbers.

        That was the opening which President Trump was able to translate into votes. He used Senator Sanders' populist messages in his own campaign, and the voters responded to Trump as they did to Sanders. People who have studied or worked in politics obviously thought that Sanders was more genuine in expressing this concern because it was a center-piece of his character and of his political record from its beginning.

        If the Democratic Party establishment had not been so obsessed with preventing Sanders from getting a fair shake with the voters in 2016, working against his campaign behind the scenes as has been exposed but seemingly to no avail, I believe we would be living under President Sanders first term as President. 

        Unfortunately the Democratic Party establishment not only did not let that happen, they have shown little acknowledgement that they "got the message" of what voters were trying to say, and thus Trump has a much greater chance for re-election than if they were seemingly showing true understanding of the mistakes they made in 2016. Too often it seems they are intent on repeating those mistakes again in 2020.

        Because my studies were greatly internationally based, mostly on Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet countries as well as the EU, I tend to see foreign policy as more important. People need to eat, they deserve jobs, they deserve an economy which takes care of its people, and the people of America certainly deserve better than they have or ever will get from their political establishment and wag-the-dog media. They have long deserved an Economic Bill of Rights that F.D.R. wanted to make a reality.

        But to thrive, they first need to survive. That is why I viewed dealing with the foreign threats this country faces as being even more important than economic issues. At a certain point, like now, too many homeless and too worsening a situation for the lower and middle class public becomes a security issue as well.

        Obviously it is one that would have to be addressed not with violence, but with aid, the kind of aid we offer to other countries, but not often enough to our own citizens. We need a Marshall Plan for America, if only to stand strong enough to stand up to foreign challengers like Russia and China.

        As someone who has studied our main adversaries, Russia and China, not only their governments but also their people and their languages, it is worrisome that the middle ground of debate in the US is rapidly shrinking to almost nothing, and that "middle ground" is the heart and soul of foreign policy, at least ideally. America's foreign service has been repeatedly damaged for decades by successive Democratic and Republican administrations eroding the necessity for our foreign policies, and our wars, to be both legal and just.

        Russians as a people, and President Putin as person, have been demonized and vilified as nothing I have ever lived through since I wasn't born until the 1960's and missed the McCarthy era hysteria. A large reason for this enmity is due to the policies and actions of the Obama administration in the Ukraine. While the Democratic Party continues to ignore many of the mistakes of the Obama administration, there is little hope for the future if they turn to a hawkish candidate like they chose to run in 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

        When I returned to University in 2004, the Soviet Union was gone. In its place, 15 new states had already been born, each with their own extremely complex sense of identity, and each carrying the baggage and the horrific legacy of the Soviet Era in their own way. Russia has had to carry solely almost all of the blame for what was done during the time of the Soviet Union, though ALL of the new 15 states were both victims and contributors to that now deceased political entity.

        Like many nations that existed for a long period in time, the Soviet Union produced good leaders and bad, and they came from all over the new 15 new countries existing now as independent nations for nearly 30 years. Josef Stalin himself came from what is now Georgia. Their histories are intertwined and in a sense, their senses of identity are intertwined.

        And even worse in regards to the future, their borders were not clearly marked and were fluid because they were most often merely official demarcations and as invisible to most as the border between New York and Vermont. Now those new "Hard Borders" are matters of life and death and have plunged much of the region of the former USSR into chaos and bloodshed.

        I have empathy for all those affected by the breakup and how 3 major societal upheavals converged to require drastic and unprecedented social change. Simultaneous political, economic, and social revolutions hit the entire region all at once. And as if that horrific perfect storm of changes and challenges to deal with were not bad enough, most of the regions economies collapsed nearly completely twice within a decade. 

        The worldwide financial collapse hit them again in 2008, as it hit the United States, but they had experience at having to regroup after suffering such setbacks repeatedly, and were able to recover more quickly than other countries because they were becoming adept at dealing with what such rapid-hitting financial challenges require, and becoming used to needing to have to change and adapt their economies quickly.

         Though as I said, I have empathy for every one of those new 15 countries and the hardships they have had to face, I have had particular empathy for what the Ukraine has had to deal with over the last 100 years. Their suffering has been on a scale unimaginable to most of the West. It has often been a tale of going from one incomprehensible disaster and suffering, to another, but they have endured.

         Though their country has great natural wealth, that wealth has rarely been used foremost for the benefit of its citizens. I can only really think of a few other countries which have been so routinely disenfranchising their own citizens. Democratic elections in such an environment were a minor miracle and instead of the United States aiding the Ukraine, as we like to portray, we have often pour gasoline on a fire which lead to vastly crippling meaningful democracy there.

        In addition to looting by foreign powers over successive occupations, even in times of relative peace, like now (if one could call this "peace" when a new "Frozen Conflict" has been born this decade), they still had and have now rampant corruption and transfer of ownership and capital out of the country on massive scale. The Ukraine is periodically thrown into chaos, from outside forces and from inside forces, so that the country's wealth and resources can again be broken open, and again pockets filled, like breaking open a piñata at a cocktail party attended exclusively by the elite.

        The breakup of the Soviet Union left many unresolved military conflicts like the Ukraine has suffered since 2014. The new "Hard" borders did not represent reality and people were suddenly left cut off from their own people and families on the other side, just like when the wall went up in Berlin. Many villages went from being within the majority within their own country to suddenly being a minority group in another country without even moving, without their consent, and without general concern for their opinions about it. 

        The Sudeten Germans left stranded in a new country without having actually moved anywhere, being told they now belonged to Poland, is but one historical example and that was cited often as one of main causes for the outbreak of World War II, when it was not resolved through negotiations. Borders matter. Borders can kill. Borders issues in a major way helped start World War II, and if not resolved, border issues like in the Ukraine may start World War III.

        The Obama Administration greatly exacerbated a dangerous situation with their actions in 2014. As I said, I studied the Ukraine and was even going to write my master's thesis about their first "Colored Revolution" in 2004. It has never been a stable country, politically speaking, since independence, and an erroneous understanding of what "security" means lead the United States State Department, under Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, to intentionally stick a crowbar into a crack and all hell broke loose.

        I only mention this because the events within the Ukraine since 2014 created a more pronounced set of demarcation lines, lines of divisions, us vs. them, not only in the Ukraine but also in the United States. 

        Everything that lead to the Impeachment of Donald Trump began in, and are intertwined with, developments related to the recent history of events within the Ukraine of the last 6 years. And most of the things that eventually led to our own political instability of the last few months began as an off-shoot effect of a gravely mistaken policy, and bad decisions, made by the Obama Administration in 2014.

        While some can call it wishy-washy, finding middle ground is the only way forward in diplomacy, Eventually the use of force has to wain or all remaining people will find themselves living in a police state for the rest of their lives. Finding middle ground is necessary for conflicts to EVER end. 

        Many in our increasingly Neo-Conservative rank and file State Department, spur finding middle ground, and fuel or prevent conflicts from ending. Unreasonable and unacceptable demands become the "starting point" to prevent negotiations and kill the chances to end the conflicts.

        In any other era I have lived in, the crisis in the Ukraine would have been daily in the news, and not just when it affects our internal politics. There would have been task forces demanded by news organizations to be dispatched to the region to try to find a peaceful resolution.

        Northern Ireland was more often in the news, but it did not pose as great a risk to regional and world security as the problems and conflicts in the Ukraine. This is one of the greatest issues of our time, and not because it has become inter-related to internal politics within the United States.

        Now our presence is not welcomed in negotiations in various hot-spots because our leadership and diplomacy efforts no longer even try to see both sides. Resolutions are negotiated often in our absence even though the future actions of our country will make or break many of those future agreements. It is shameful we are no longer considered helpful for negotiations when we are considered a spoiler or obstacle to meaningful negotiation.

        Peoples' sense of identity needs to be respected. People need to feel safe, secure, and respected within their own borders. We cannot afford to have a power keg in the Ukraine become in any way more like the Sudeten German issue, which was allowed to fester until it led to unthinkable devastation. Diplomacy is required, and creating a dialogue is essential for our shared future, not saber-rattling and ultimatums, which can lead to a longer and more deadly war.

        Your desire to have greater dialogue with Russia is commendable. It is right when you say that its of the utmost importance, and it was right when Trump stressed its importance. But that can never happen given the current environment in Washington among the leadership of both political parties, and it cannot happen given the prevailing anti-Russian views put forth dominantly by the press, as if there is no other rational view to take. Russia is bad. Russia must be stopped. Whatever the cost. The end.

        I don't have an overly positive view of the Russian Government, although as with the United States, the Russian people are not to blame for the policies of their leadership. But I also do not have an overly negative view.

        Russia, as well as China, will always be adversaries whom we should be wary of, and we should be worried when they start to be seen by the rest of the world as more attractive examples of how to govern, especially given our current political meltdown. But whether they should be viewed as enemies, that is up to us as well as them.

        The wars in the Middle-East, unnecessary wars, have greatly compromised our capacity to deal with Russia's technological breakthroughs, significantly being as far ahead of us now in some fields more than at any other time since the 1950's. Hyper-sonic missiles is one example but there are significant others.

        And these wars which we could have avoided through meaning early negotiations have overshadowed our need to retool our economy to deal with China ascent,inevitably transitioning to primacy.

        Those are not easy facts for the cheerleaders who call us the "Indispensable Nation," as our politicians and press ceaselessly tell us we are, because that is what they want and sometimes demand that we believe. But it has little basis in reality.

        The reality is that they are rising while we are falling. They are winning the battle of change and adaptation, and we are loosing it. The books of Chalmers Johnson called out our hubris by name, and we did not listen. We preferred the facade and the image of greatness while our adversaries worked on building the foundations of it.

        The War on Terror, and the Wars in the Middle-East accomplished no security goals. Before the wars began, we had leaders securely in power in Iraq, in Libya, and in Syria, ready to make deals with us. But instead our leadership almost unanimously said no, you must go.

        And after they went and millions were left dead or as refuges. We did not gain security. Their countries were left in tatters and their previously thriving cultures greatly wrecked as well. They certainly were not left better off and neither were we.

        It did not help our economy in the long run. It did not help our readiness to deal with our real adversaries. It was a reason not just to loot their countries, but to loot our own treasury by our whole corrupted influence-peddling business-as-normal political culture.

        And while the money is still flowing into funding these conflicts, they have used this flow to build a proverbial fortress to make sure these cancerous policies can never be changed, and ensure that the wars must never be ended anytime soon.

        And by God if they have not done that exceedingly well, making changes of course and policy nearly impossible. Three new Presidents won office promising a turn away from militarism and two left office after 8 years leaving behind a bigger war machine, more ongoing wars whose ends are not clear or in sight. And they left a far bigger mess behind, making all of this become even more entrenched, and unable to be challenged or changed by their successors.

       Your stated views and platform promise a move away from it, and the public might have been more responsive to it, because I too believe that they really do still want that kind of change. That desire for a change in our foreign policy is one of the largest reasons many anti-war liberals and independents overcame their dislike of Trump and voted for him as the lesser of two evils, in their opinion.

        The Forever War climate is not an easy sell anymore, which is why the most powerful groups profiting from this disadvantageous climate need for it never to be seriously challenged in any meaningful way. That is the true reason for the hostility to your campaign. War has to remain the only option on the menu.

        I think you have a chance in Iowa. Because it is a caucus state, surprises can happen there. Your best chance is to send someone to talk with traditional anti-war groups and Veterans. They are the ones you have an advantage with that none of the others running share. I would not send someone who is a super-fan. Sending a cheerleader for your campaign would not be helpful in any way. That is because they are already aware of your campaign, and unless their support there is completely under the radar, it is not strong enough to help as much as you will need to do there to remain viable.

       You need to send someone who is skeptical of your campaign. Someone who already understands all the reasons that they may have for why they have not done as much to support your campaign, thus far, as you will need them to do come election day. Someone who can articulate the reservations of these groups, anti-war activists and Veterans,back to them, because they share or had shared those reservations, and then still make the case for why you MUST do well in Iowa for the causes they fight for, which you fight for, to have a chance to grow because they NEED to grow.

        You don't need them to support you forever. You don't need to convince them that you are the best person to be President. That is not how Iowans vote. You need to convince them that you are fighting for a cause which they believe in too.

       And you need to convince them that, at this point in time as they prepare to vote, that your cause is of utmost importance, and your dedication to fight for it to the end despite the jeers from the mainstream press, is what makes you different from the other candidates.

        That is the message Iowa needs to send to the rest of the country, and they can understand that better than most electorates. They take their lead position seriously and like to make a statement with it.

        You cannot do that yourself. But you have a chance to translate whatever remains of the true "resistance", those groups of patriots who know as you do, as Don Henley said better than most have since,

       "That the road to Empire is a bloody human waste."

        They have to be your voice on election day. They are out there, somewhere in Iowa, and you need to find them, not to win, but to continue to fight the good fight you have chosen take upon yourself.

        Good-luck and Godspeed.

        Mahalo and aloha.

Jared DuBois

Former U.S. Senate Intern

Former Student of International Relations and U.S. Political Science and U.S. Policy

Former Student of European Integration and Russia Studies including Media

Former Student of Transitional Economic and Political Development of the former USSR

Former Student of Border Conflicts in Post-Soviet States including "Frozen" conflicts

Former Graduate Student of Political Sociology

Former Employee of the County of Maui

Former Candidate for the Hawaii State Senate

Current US Citizen residing in the US (Kauai)

     

Well, I think that came out pretty well, if I do say so myself. These are views which you usually won't see on TV, and increasingly, are becoming rare on the Internet. If I am right, and no one offers help soon, I will be gone soon too, which is why I decided to post once a day, every day, until New Years Day, when all my money and lack of being able to change anything will run out. I won't be evicted immediately, but without a job, I won't have much to bargain for more time with. I used to be somebody. I went up against falseness in the media and government, not armed with a bunch of stolen files, not with fame or fortune or even recognition in mind. I just wrote the truth as best I could do and then went back home to Hawaii. For awhile I was left alone to do my work, which was an ok job, but then that was taken away, pretty much without any legal cause or valid explanation. To those in the government and media who knew of me before my attempt at getting the truth out, or who learned of me later but don't, can't, or won't ever acknowledge me or my writing now anymore, not that it was ever quoted before, and leave me to the fates with neither help nor acknowledgement, you at least get to let me use a really, really cool set of lines which I never thought would apply to me.

When I came again, you pretended you never knew of me.

When I spoke again, you pretended you never heard me.

When I was hungry, you would not help feed me.

and when I left, you pretended I was never there.

Similar "Open Letter" addressed to Trump below. I am getting better, as the one above shows, is superior to the one below, but taking out all the typos is really slowing me down. The above one has less typos. I can still write very well at great speed without need for revision, but the damned auto-correct is "fixing" works I mistype into words close in length and letters to the words I meant, but of course in meaning are no where near the same. Since they look optically close to what I typed and don't come up as wrongly spelt anymore, those buggers are hard to find. 

Open Letter to President Donald Trump


        Ostensibly, the purpose of this letter is wanting to be considered to be hired for a position. I wish to use that to discuss not so much why I am the best person to hire for any given job, but to discuss things which I feel are the most important things going on at this time which I have a somewhat unique perspective on given my background, education, and experience. And I wish to share that perspective at this time when I think that it is important to do so.

        First of all, before covering what I believe are the most important topics, knowing that though this is addressed to the President, it is unlikely to be given to the President, due to having been a US Senate Intern myself dealing with writing responses which never reached the Senator (which were then passed along and edited by higher ups). Few requests actually reach anyone of importance, even at that lower level.

        Despite that I know that it would be unlikely for this to make it through all the stages required to reach the President, I wish to offer some words of praise, not to try to win favor, but simply because it is the right thing to do, before mentioning the greater reasons for deciding to write this letter.

        The reception which you have received from Press, the Democratic Party, and the bureaucracy since winning the election in 2016, and the challenges you have faced because of that reception have been without precedent. I try not to psychoanalyze people, and your decision to walk into such a position is something both puzzling on one hand and potentially very courageous on the other.

        While I cannot begin to say I understand it, I very much hope that it is because you see the challenges our country faces, and believe you are in a position to do what you feel needs most to be done, that is if you are able to prevail against those who wish to prevent that from happening.

        I have studied government (listed below) for many years and understand that in a Democracy, it is important for different opposing groups to have representation and that the best course of action is often a compromise, though not always, and decisions made are best vetted by a thorough earnest debate among available possible courses of action.

        Obviously, like any ideal, this is rarely manifested in reality or day to day actions. My own candidacy for State Senate in Hawaii, was to bring attention to the lack of this ideal or reality of a working democracy in existence in Hawaii due to the imbalance in the makeup of State Legislature in both branches. With a roughly 95% majority by the Democratic Party in both Houses in every legislative session, there is no real meaningful debate when each committee can simply rubber-stamp anything on a party-line vote with only token debate. Everything is often pre-decided well before going through the motions of having votes when the passage is never in doubt. It is always worked out in advance of voting.

        There is much to be said toward having a real enough opposition, which actually represents opposing policies or views, so that one party or group cannot automatically prevail on every issue or people will begin to lose faith that their government is coming to decisions through a rigorous consideration of alternatives. Otherwise it often leads to corruption and what you have termed "The Swamp".

       Another thing which prevents this is the bureaucracy itself. Changing government policy even when all involved know it is failing badly is often put off or worse, barely attempted because of the inertia of going against the grain of accepted traditions of how issues should be addressed, often going back years or decades.

        The need for career employees and supposed "experts" who are put in by different parties or interest groups, meant to be "above politics" is real, yet these people can be the most partisan and cannot be removed from their jobs easily due to the assumption that they always will do their jobs in an objective non-partisan way. Again an ideal of how government works which has little basis in reality on how it works day-to-day.

        I am writing this out of fear. Fear is a very good motivator though it can cloud one's judgement. I am writing, as I often have for 15 years now, that a new war will begin to be waged in the Middle-East, particularly against Iran. I am writing as I did well before John McCain gave his "Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb bomb Iran" quote/clip. I have had mixed opinions about the late Senator from Arizona.

        Having worked for a Democratic Senator from what Republican's like to have called back then "The People's Republic of Massachusetts," when in Washington D.C. after my internship ended, I applied to only a handful of Republican Senators because I did not think those applications would get as much consideration. Two I remember applying to were McCain and Senator Bob Dole.

        When I heard McCain's often played video clip, I heard a different interpretation of what he was saying than has commonly been construed. It sounded like he was mocking the idea that has often been prevalent in Washington, almost constantly, for decades. It is always coming up because certain people seeming cannot wait or are eager for such a war to occur, like your former National Security Advisor, John Bolton.

        The decision to hire Mr. Bolton I have to admit, I considered among your most questionable appointments. The only silver lining I saw in it was that was not to the Secretary of State position. That being said, I would have loved (and I am sure hundreds of millions of people around the world would have been willing to buy tickets for it) to have seen the moment you canned his ass.

        But my fear of a War with Iran suddenly becoming a reality is not based on someone like John Bolton suggesting it, or even manipulating it into happening leaving you no other option. A mouse-trapping you into War leaving you with no other options.

        My fear is that the Impeachment Process which is at this point, hoped to be constant ongoing event by some in the House, is creating an instability which not only can lead to an "accidental war" but even more serious problems than that.

        The insanity of the partisanship which is driving these events not only is de-legitimizing Congress and the Presidency among different groups in the country, but it is creating a power vacuum that the many Bolton-followers in the State Department may attempt to take advantage of.

        I am sure you have seen indications of this in the testimony of some of the witnesses during the Impeachment Hearings. To describe some of these people's views as merely "partisan" is far too kind.

        The reaction of many politicians and many theoretically non-partisan bureaucrats is so-knee jerk reactionary that more worrying than them expressing such things to obtain an objective, your removal from office, is that these expressed extreme views are how these people think about the world and the United State's place in it.

        I have written before many times about the politicalization of the State Department almost becoming a second War Department to vie with the Defense Department. In some ways in the last few decades the State Department has been more eager to push for War than diplomacy or the pursuit of peaceful alternatives to war, often less costly financially in terms of dollars and respect, and always less costly on a human and humanitarian basis.

        The reason I have been so fearful of a War with Iran is that I do not believe, as many in the former pre-neocon based State Department also would agree, that it is a war which can or could be easily contained. It would automatically trigger region-wide chaos before anyone could react, and could also go nuclear and involve a dangerous number of well-armed countries with various weapons of mass destruction.

        Specifically, my fear is that once there is even a modest "limited-strike" upon Iran, often discussed as a positive option in the "Mainstream Media," it would be followed by a real or false-flag attack on an Israeli nuclear facility or reactor. Such civilian fallout and casualties would then be used to push for a nuclear strike within Iran. This is not wild speculation. This is a contingency which is often mentioned and considered as a viable, and to some, appropriate response.

        One thing I do not have in common with most people experience-wise is having watched the major events of September 11th, 2001 while they were happening. Most of the last 20 years I have lived in Hawaii, and normally preferred to work late at night when it is cool enough not to run an air-conditioner (making it easier to concentrate), I did not go to sleep until just before the first plane hit a tower. The world I went to sleep seeing had little to do with the world I woke up to later the same day.

        Though I was glued to reports of what had happened as the entire world was still doing, I saw the events as a future historian would, after the fact. Whatever hysteria the rest of the world, and especially the people of the United States were going through while I slept, that view I was spared.

        But I woke up to watching clips of 3 very tall buildings falling at free-fall speed, completely symmetrically into their own footprints and being told the reason was because two of them were hit by airplanes.

        The third one was never really addressed, and could not be, because if even airplanes could achieve that, and many are convinced they could, certainly even a major raging fire could not have caused the other building to fall like that, exactly like a controlled demolition. No fire no matter how severe, has, can, could ever cause a building to collapse all at once into its own footprint like that. And there was certainly no major raging fire present.

        My point for mentioning this is not to have myself labelled as a "9/11 Truther", but to show my different perspective on what I was seeing. What I saw of far more importance was the events which came later, specifically the Anthrax Letters.

        Former intrepid blogger and pseudo-journalist Glenn Greenwald went on for years before the Snowden leaks and retirement from investigative journalism, about how the most major contributing factor to the reasoning behind the need for the Patriot Act curtailing civil rights, somewhat of a mini-martial law or worse depending on how it is interpreted and used, was the Anthrax Letters. And he was amazed or expressed amazement at how that most significant of events, had become just a minor footnote in history. His reporting done at this time was among the most comprehensive reporting he did while a journalist.

        What struck me was not how similar the Anthrax Letters were to a C.o.G. plan or operation, but that its component features and the way it played out were the base components of nearly EVERY of Continuity of Government plan to deal with shutting down the government in case of a National Emergency. Though not acknowledged now they included calls for clandestine attacks on the press and legislature to create support for emergency measures to be widely accepted by the general public.

        In a nice and misleading way, this is now admitted that C.o.G. was implemented (though not including the Anthrax Letters as part of that), but the inherent idea of such plans (some of them) was to create a panic great enough which would force the press, legislature, and public to support a state of emergency.

        Along with Project Northwoods, which involved a false-flag attack on our own airlines to create support for a war with Cuba, the government considers and plans an extraordinary number of really horrible things. When something happens to trigger one of them, it is or can be called an accident.

        But having these plans around waiting to be used, makes them not really that accidental. That is just a dodge for accountability to a make horrific things happen, and those responsible fearing no career problems for themselves once they do.

        Not just Glenn Greenwald, but also a number of real mainstream reporters mentioned that the legislation rushed through Congress in the aftermath of these attacks, the Patriot Act, was far too large and comprehensive to have been written so quickly after the events. The legislation called The Patriot Act, was something that existed on a proverbial shelf waiting to go off when something sufficient triggered it, as C.o.G. plans are.

        And it was the hysteria in the press and Congress fearing for their own lives that was the primary reason or driving event, for their going along with such extreme measures, not the original events of 9/11. That the main cause of the just renewed Patriot Act had become a "footnote in history" is certainly better than the attempts to pin it on someone who was not responsible. But it is not good that with so many things done, we have to trust that what caused that to mistake (hopefully considered to be a mistake) happen was made less likely (hopefully) by an internal investigation and review of procedures.

        My fear about an upcoming War with Iran is not based primarily on the effects of that war on the Iranian people, though that is obviously worth consideration, nor just the effects on our own military people and readiness to fight a far more unavoidable war should one occur simultaneously or shortly there after, if such a war would come to an end in an expedient time-frame. Given Afghanistan is a far smaller less populated and less militarily equipped country, and the war there is still going on a generation later, our longest war by far, there is no guarantee than one could say when such an endeavor against Iran might end.

        What my fear about a War with Iran IS based on besides that it could trigger a larger region-wide war, and no country, not even the US, has the power to prevent that possibility from occurring one the conflict begins, is what types of C.o.G. plans and Patriot Act III & IV's are waiting patiently in the wings (or not so patiently because the Dick Cheney and John Boltons of the world know about them and even contributed to their existence or shape) for the chance to be taken off the shelf and be put into implementation.

        That is the problem with thinking the unthinkable too often and putting the most paranoid and war-loving people in charge of planning for such contingencies because they are often done in secret with limited internal debate and direction from those not particularly invested in their implementation.

        At some point they move from being a last-case scenario, to being something less unthinkable as time goes on. And eventually, become a profitable endeavor when done right and knowing in advance what industries and companies will be favored once they do go into effect.

        When the hysteria over the Anthrax Letters occurred, Congress was in no position to make rational decisions. In the current divided nature of Congress, between the House and Senate, and between the Executive and Legislative Branches, the odds are that given such a crisis situation, the hawks still within the State Department and other branches of government will have a clear path to create and/or possible exacerbate any event that can lead to such escalation, war, or lessening of already heavily restricted civil rights and due process.

        I know it is farcical almost to be talking about "due process" given how the
Impeachment went down. Both sides, and possibly even especially the Democrats, have been blinded by partisanship and an "ends justify the means" mentality, that there is little hope that they will be getting back to "business as usual" any time soon.

        I have referred to this before as a potential Constitutional Crisis was others have, but it is far worse than that. What is dysfunctional governing now, is on the verge of becoming incapable of governing at all if not remedied in an expedient and timely fashion.

        Of this I am sure you are aware, but the inertia of this situation is beginning to settle. What was done before, by everyone involved on both sides, is clearly not helping to bring it to and end.

        I am well aware that the impeachment was "rushed" through before the customary review of your Executive Privilege claims to be adjudicated before the Supreme Court, and that lack of review was compounded by being itself a new impeachable offense. I mention this because the fact that this review was not done before the vote for Impeachment, many will not see the Supreme Court's arbitration as valid, especially those most worked up and emotional over this crisis.

        I am using my circumstances to offer my assistance in whatever way I can in a non-political way. I had studied International Relations as well as the US Government for many years because I was hopeful after Graduate School (the first time around) to work in the State Department or Legislature to promote peaceful resolutions between our then largest adversaries, the Soviet Union and China.

        The irony is that such peace talks are not needed with Russia and China, nearly so much as within the United States government itself. Our current relations with China, and especially Russia (the former USSR's main entity) which I have studied most of all, are difficult and extremely challenging, but far from irresolvable. They are ready to, as you would say, "make deals." More than ready even. Eager to get on with resolving these disputes.

        Putin, who was in office when I first went back to University in the former Soviet Union 16 years ago, is still in office now. Like Iran waited for years under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to commit the United States to even discuss agreement while they were they were most eager to come to the table and discuss any possible resolution, so too has Russia been waiting. It was the US that put conditions on the talks that made even a discussion, let alone a potential for an agreement, with Iran to never be possible.

        You did not approve of the eventual deal struck between Iran, the US, and other other signatories to that agreement, but it took until Secretary Kerry took over for the US to find the willingness to remove the intentional Boltonesque roadblocks to talks.

        You have earned much often neglected praise for your success to begin serious talks with North Korea. Now that Bolton is out, hopefully those who remain who would impede successful negotiations will be less able to sabotage talks with preconditions as the unreasonable as the ones Iran had to deal with for years under Obama/Clinton's fake moves at securing a good and lasting agreement.

        Putin had a very apt description of his attempts to work with the US, partially due to the false "Russiagate" accusations intended to make it difficult to impossible for you to successfully deal with the pressing issues between our nations. The term was that the US was "non-agreement capable".

        I first heard use of the term after his administration and the Obama administration worked out an agreement to co-ordinate action in Eastern Syria, which was immediately terminated a day after the agreement by an "accidental" strike on a position which had been known long before, that they were in control over, and continually maintained a presence.

        While this hyper-partisanship continues, this incapacity to negotiate with Russia without you being insinuated as being a "Putin Puppet" or "traitor" and other insane ramblings of the press which no other President has had to endure, not only assures an new Cold War, but risks a Hot War. My opinion is that it is already a hybrid-war due to economic sanctions and other flare ups.

        The reason I think you should be given far more respect than you have gotten from the Press and Democrats is on the issues which are most important, negotiations, especially with Russia which you have championed from the very beginning of your campaign and Presidency.

        Just as Putin's opinion of or country as being not capable of making agreements and sticking to them goes back to the Obama administration, so too does the Democrats aversion to dealing with Russia in a manner conductive to lessening tensions and producing results.

        While I have been disturbed by your occasional "tough talk" about Iran and the abandoning of that Nuclear Agreement, it seems obvious if not self-evident that throughout Putin's long tenure as Russia's leader, when the heat is turned down on Russia, the rhetoric grows almost proportionately against Iran and vice-versa. This happened repeatedly under the Bush and Obama administrations. It is almost like the United States or those highest in government do not believe it's possible to be on positive terms with both at the same time.

        If we were to go to war with Russia, it would be unthinkable and possibly fatal for not only civilization, but also possibly the death of our species no matter what our Dr. Strangeloves have envisioned for themselves in bunkers. So on that, for now we need the highest priority for us to become "agreement capable" with Russia. But war with Iran can also just as easily reach the same ending.

        Successful negotiations on resolving the crisis with Iran is just as important as dealing with Russia or China. Unfortunately, the progress you have made with North Korea in achieving a dialogue is not being replicated with Iran which is a greater potential flashpoint and extremely liable to go off suddenly, especially during this protracted standoff within Congress over Impeachment, which I admit you have little control over the matter at this point.

        I have used this "request for employment" as a valid and real reason for pointing out these issues which I hope someone in your administration might see and share enough to have it forwarded up the line a bit to someone who can influence policy. The people who are talking about "perpetual impeachment" are doing vast harm to our government's credibility and ability to meet extreme crisis events quickly.

        Because I know I would never be seriously considered, I at least was able to make these points here in writing because it would never be likely to be discussed in person. Hiring me, at least in any governmental capacity would go over and be akin to making Edward Snowden your Secretary of State or appointing Julian Assange Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

        I am best remembered by what you, and Chalmers Johnson (excellent author, you should read his books) before you, termed the "deep state" as the one who tried to get political asylum in Sweden in the midst of the worst fighting of the Iraq War wanting to talk about the worst crimes the US ever did while also mentioning illegal things currently happening. And one could say I actually did that a bit.

        I more or less backed off of doing that when the government admitted publicly to one of the points I made. Doing such was the only course of action I saw myself able to take to deal with what I was presented with, and hopefully that it would have been "passed on" up the line. Whether it worked or didn't, or how much or how many saw it, I have no idea. Obviously because of that I would never be trusted on National Security issues or get clearance for anything important. Though nothing ever came of it in terms of punishment against me, I am sure it did not go over well with some agencies.

        However, as I am sure my current situation can attest, I have never been one to desire power, money, nor influence which would lead to gaining such things, and merely wished to be left alone to live and work in Hawaii. But since that is not likely to happen or be happening soon, that is why I am using that for the purpose of this, and two other letters offering my services.

        This I felt was the most important letter to write because I do not wish primarily to work on a political campaign (the County of Maui can certify by means of prior testing that I do qualify to work as a Starter on a Golf course, the most unusual position I have tested for among the 20+ tests I took there and passed every one) but as an American and hopefully still considered a patriotic one, I would most eagerly like to help in whatever way possible to negotiate with our biggest dispute, and most dangerous one. That being of course the Congressional standoff currently ongoing. What little expertise I have is in regards to the European Union and the former Soviet Union states, including Russia, but I have studied US politics and policy as well.

        Besides being one gifted in helping discover and bring attention to potential stumbling blocks to agreements, I like to think I can use that to attempt to talk sense enough to our own politicians and political class and help them check their considerable egos enough to treat our current impasse as seriously as they hopefully would rise to meet a world crisis. Because it is. And it is likely to trigger others.

        As I said, I don't like to "psychoanalyze" people, but I am good when meeting people to begin to understand how they think and see things from their points of view. This has been helped when people realize I have no agenda of my own, nor any axe to grind, nor wish to promote myself or my interests in any way when being involved in such situations. No matter how bad they are or serious the circumstances might become, my only interest is seeing them resolved as quickly possible and in a way that has some staying power, some chance to take root long enough to be built upon later.

        Upon your election I tweeted out that you met with my father once briefly for a business meeting, and that he would have been very pleased that you won. You won him over many years ago, but unfortunately he passed away in 2002. I only know of you as a person through him. He had nothing but praise and with all his interest and studying over decades of psychics and their predictions, he himself made a now irrefutable call when your name came up. "That man will be President one day, mark my words!"

        I don't claim to be psychic, just a good read of people and sometimes a good judge of what potentially can happen. I knew when coming to Kauai what could possibly happen and how I could be boxed in and I let that happen, though I can easily show I did not completely create the circumstances I am in, as with the political asylum. They lead to predictable destinations and had potential other routes did not.

        Like in Lithuania at the end of 2003 and Sweden at the end of 2005, I could either walk toward an unknown hoping to shake thing up a bit, or do nothing and let the situation around me deteriorate until I could, like most people, do nothing but resign myself to the idea that there is nothing I can do and just veg until the world comes to an end.

        Unfortunately I, for whatever reason besides trying not to get involved in such matters, also have trained very hard for a very long time to be knowledgeable enough to put myself to use should eventual events ever require it, and if asked to do so.

        On the chance that this may actually be read by its primary intended recipient, I have to agree on your assessment of Obama's Presidency, possibly for over different matters. For reasons that would not help me being perceived as trying to remain impartial between Democrats and Republicans, there are key moments where he dropped the facade and revealed his inner thinking if not his true character. You may know the type, who brag about their worst deeds in a way that they think no one will ever notice, because they think themselves so smart and others so dumb not enough to get it. It gives them a thrill.

        The one I will mention came shortly after your election win in November 2016. On allegations possible Russian interference in the election, he said he would have mentioned it sooner but "didn't want to interfere" in the election. While that is still developing as far as how much such allegations were made for the purpose of swinging the election in favor of Clinton, and just how much he and his administration might have had been helping orchestrate or guide what became Russiagate in its infancy, it takes a certain type of person say he was only "holding back" because he didn't want to "interfere" with the election. History I believe or at least hope will judge the hypocrisy of that statement and others he made, for what they were.

        I hope to write a similar letter as this and direct it to the campaign of Michael Bloomberg, not that I think that it would be read by him, but I see the potential for his candidacy to have a positive effect on the race on the Democratic side.

        I don't know much about Bloomberg, or enough to know if he could or even would set the Democrats on a firmer, more sane footing. But he has more funds available and like you, he would not be so beholden to those who make donations.

        The term is used derogatively, that he is trying to "buy" himself the nomination. And that is a reasonable concern for people to have. But the alternative is that anyone else, and some more than others, given the nature of our unlimited campaign spending system, will be "bought" themselves.

        When asked by an instructor who formerly had a high position in the CIA and State Department what I thought of Putin, I had to think for a second because I wanted to give a good answer due to who was asking, and because it was an interesting question to try to get right. I said I thought he was ambitious, in that he wanted to be President and also be in charge of the country at the same time.

        It may have sounded like a joke, though I was serious. Since I studied and was studying the effects of the transition to democracy in the former USSR, the hope that any of those states would have a leader who was not "bought" seemed like an impossible dream.

        That is the true nature of why his support is so strong. People believe he can't be bought, and Putin likes to believe it himself. History may tell if it is written fairly, if that was so. But an "unbought" leadership is what Russia craves, and what I wish to God America not only would crave as much, but also expect it, and demand it.


Thank for your attention if you read this far.


Best wishes and sincere hopes you are able to realize those goals upon which we agree which I think are most important and the most neglected in the current US political environment.


Jared DuBois

Former U.S. Senate Intern
Former Student of International Relations and U.S. Political Science and U.S. Policy
Former Student of European Integration and Russia Studies including Media
Former Student of Transitional Economic and Political Development of the former USSR
Former Student of Border Conflicts in Post-Soviet States including "Frozen" conflicts
Former Graduate Student of Political Sociology
Former Employee of the County of Maui
Former Candidate for the Hawaii State Senate
Current US Citizen residing in the US



This was written yesterday and, though not a typical resume, it is more descriptive of my post-collegiate experiences and a more comprehensive current work history. It also explains why I was fired, possibly the only blight on an otherwise perfect record .

I do have a more typical resume if requested. Mahalo.